Neuroscience Interview Series: on learning and “brain gyms”

By Alvaro Fernandez | January 23, 2007 |

Giv­en that we are get­ting new read­ers let’s re-intro­­duce our Neu­ro­science Inter­view Series. If you click on the cat­e­go­ry (in the right bar) that says Neu­ro­science Inter­view Series, you will find the updat­ed list of inter­views we have con­duct­ed (and also some that we have found else­where, such as the one with Posit Sci­ence’s Dr.…

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Cogmed, Freeze-Framer, IntelliGym, MindFit, Posit Science

By Alvaro Fernandez | January 16, 2007 |

We are spend­ing more time talk­ing to jour­nal­ists these days. A fre­quent ques­tion we receive is, “OK, which com­put­er-based pro­grams do you con­sid­er to be Brain Fit­ness Pro­grams, not just “games” for pure fun”?. Our answer: the rate of devel­op­ment of new pro­grams by neu­ro­sci­en­tists world­wide is real­ly increas­ing, and there are already a few out there…

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New Brain Fitness Guide

By Caroline Latham | December 14, 2006 |

We are very excit­ed to announce our new guide: <strong>Brain Fit­ness for Sharp Brains: Your <em>New</em> New Year Resolution,</strong>. Alvaro Fer­nan­dez and Dr. Elkhonon Gold­berg wrote it with Car­o­line Lath­am in order to pro­vide an intro­duc­tion to the con­cept, sci­ence, and prac­tice of brain fitness.

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This is a Brain Fitness Center.

By Alvaro Fernandez | December 12, 2006 |

Today we issued the fol­low­ing press release, and are work­ing hard to get every­thing ready by Jan­u­ary (every­thing works now, but we want to pol­ish it). Please view this web­site as research in action, a liv­ing hypoth­e­sis. We are doing this because we love to learn and help. Please help us learn-feel free to give…

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Brain Fitness Program: Cogmed Working Memory Training. And more…

By Alvaro Fernandez | December 7, 2006

Busy day today. And very fun. — Great chat with Rolf Hal­len­creutz, Chair­man of the Board of Cogmed Work­ing Mem­o­ry Train­ing pro­gram, RoboMemo-now only for kids with ADD/ ADHD‑, dis­cussing how work­ing mem­o­ry train­ing may influ­ence med­i­cine, edu­ca­tion, cor­po­rate train­ing, and health & well­ness in gen­er­al (Dear Skype: thanks one more help for con­tribut­ing to US-Sweden…

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Brain Training and “Brain-ism” in Japan

By Alvaro Fernandez | December 4, 2006 |

Today we are trav­el­ing to Japan. Go Hira­no is a ser­i­al Japan­ese entre­pre­neur who has been explor­ing neu­ro­­science-based oppor­tu­ni­ties in Japan, hav­ing recent­ly cre­at­ed the com­pa­ny NeuWell (neu­ro­science for well­ness). ———————- Key take-aways: — Peo­ple in Japan devour any prod­uct with brain-relat­ed claims — But there has been a recent back­lash against chil­dren videogames, so…

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